Qingyun Section Bed 53 (FQ-43,42,41), Fuyuan County (Triassic of China)

Where: Yunnan, China (25.8° N, 104.4° E: paleocoordinates 5.3° N, 94.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Kayitou Formation, Griesbachian (251.9 - 250.5 Ma)

• 5.67 m thick

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified, gray, green mudstone and lithified siltstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Primary reference: Z. Q. Yao, J. T. Xu, Z. G. Zheng, X. H. Zhao, and Z. G. Mou. 1980. Late Permian Stratigraphy and Fossils in Western Guizhou and Eastern Yunnan 1-277 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 112119: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 03.07.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Lingulata
 Lingulida - Lingulidae
Lingularia sp. Biernat and Emig 1993
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Pteriidae
Pteria ussurica Kiparisova 1938 pearl oyster
ssp. variabilis
Pteria murchisoni Geinitz 1861 pearl oyster
ssp. qingyunensis
Ostracoda
 Palaeocopida - Hollinellidae
Hollinella tingi Patte 1935 ostracod